WEST VIRGINIA — Craig Hettlinger explains that he started drinking when he was about 16 years old. He escalated to stronger drugs three years later when he played Division I soccer at Marshall University. He started every game for a team that was ranked in the top 20 in the country at the time.

“My freshman year, we had just tied the No. 16 team in the country. And what do you do after you tie No. 16 in the country? You celebrate because you played a really good game. And so, that evening, we went to a party and had a lot of alcohol and, me personally, had a good bit of cocaine,” he explained. “I passed out that evening at 19, and when I woke up, I was 32 years old in a homeless shelter in Richmond, Virginia, wondering how the hell I got there. I had literally lost 13 years of my life.”